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This New York Times poll is interesting. It shows that despite the media onslaught and the lies pumped out by the Republicans, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creating jobs…
This New York Times poll is interesting. It shows that despite the media onslaught and the lies pumped out by the Republicans, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creating jobs…
What does supporting wars against people in far off countries have to do with being paleo? A couple of years ago I had put on about 20 pounds and was…
It must have been pretty weak pixie dust, that debt ceiling agreement that was supposed to stave off imminent collapse, put America on a sound economic footing and bring sunshine…
It's sad to listen to Nycole Turmel's mea culpa's in the news as she pleads over and over that she is now and has always been a federalist. Almost half…
This is a story that isn’t a story. NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel has a long history as a union activist and progressive. She was president of the Public Service…
Secular protesters retake Tahrir Square after Islamist's depart. They chant for a secular state and against the military leadership. While outside commentators have repeatedly suggested that Egypt's revolution has stalled…
This is interesting: The Forum Research survey found Hudak’s Tories at 38 per cent — down from 41 per cent in June — to McGuinty’s Liberals at 28 per cent,…
...and I don't mean sodomy in the fun frolicky sense of the world. What I mean is that they've agree that the deficit will not be "fixed" by raising taxes…
As radical as they think that they are, the Tea Party follows a pattern of attempts to create a third party in the US political duopoly - which, let's face…
Tea Party Republicans: ready to go all the way Republican House Speaker John Boehner must be wondering at this moment what to do with his rather large embarrassment of riches…
Remember how Obama said all that stuff about the importance of whistleblowers to keep government honest? Yeah, well, you might want to ask Bradley Manning the punchline to that particular…
You could almost be forgiven for thinking that the scumbag hacks & corporate puppetmasters couldn't possibly sink any lower than what had already been revealed. I mean, Murdoch's crew of…
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that at the end of a bad month for the client regime in Afghanistan and the NATO colonial project in general, that the US…
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn't some Tory bagman who isn't willing to try and sell it to us as a…
Go ahead & eat it: you know you want to I came across this article in Health & Fitness section of today's Globe & Mail. A reader asks Leslie Beck,…
A number of articles were sent my way today about the phenomenon in the USA and Scotland - and probably in Canada - of charging parents with child abuse if…
The US debt crisis has escalated after Republicans were forced to rewrite their proposal to lift the debt ceiling, because they miscalculated how much the original plan would cut spending.In…
I'm sure there will be paeans of praise for the now late mayor of Kandahar, particularly in the North American median. The Globe & Mail, for instance, suggests that Mayor…
One day it's Rob Ford lying about labour costs on the radio, then his brother is lying about the number of libraries vs Tim Hortons in his ward. This week…
Hate to say it folks but there's about a snowball's chance in hell that the world won't have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many…